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Money Back Rebates on Sun CoolThreads Servers from PG&E

Sun Microsystems and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) have partnered to offer you new ways to cut costs in the data center with an energy incentive rebate on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology. The first of its kind, this new rebate program rewards PG&E customers who replace power-hungry servers with Sun's innovative CoolThreads servers--cutting acquisition costs by as much as 35%.

The first systems to qualify for a power rebate on energy-efficient data center products, Sun's new CoolThreads servers were selected as a result of achieving the highest energy efficiency rating among servers. As part of PG&E's Non-Residential Retrofit Program, customers who replace old, inefficient servers with eco-responsible Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers can now apply to receive a cash savings between $700 - $1,000 per server [1].

The Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers also deliver compute capacity up to 5x that of competitive servers, while only using 1/5 the power and 1/4 the space -- proving that faster can be cooler, better can be cleaner, and cheaper can be greener [2].

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Better for Your Data, Your Budget, and the Planet

In 2005, a Gartner poll revealed that more than 69 percent of Data Centers are power, cooling and space constrained [3]. Since then, servers have continued to consume more power and generate more heat, and energy prices have soared by Sun's estimation at 30% per year, making this an ideal time for a rebate from a major regional utility.

This much performance has never been available in such a compact server, much less one that can save you millions in power and cooling costs. And now with PG&E's added incentive of a cash rebate, there is no better time to start saving energy, money, and the planet. You can trade in competitive hardware or older Sun systems to take advantage of these savings. Either way you look at it, it makes good ecological and economic sense [4].

One Sun Fire T1000 server vs. two Dell PowerEdge 2850s: One Sun Fire T1000 server is more than 7% faster than two Dell systems, which use 6220 kwH per year more than the Sun server [5]. That translates to about $833 in electric bills per year for direct electricity, in addition to an estimated $242 in electric bills per year for cooling. At a list price of $11,995, subtract the $980 rebate and $1050 per year in electricity costs, and the system will save you over $3000 [6]!

Upgrade to a Sun Fire T2000 Server from an older Sun system: One Sun Fire T2000 server can replace up to three Sun Enterprise E3500 servers, which will result in an annual power and HVAC cost savings of of approximately $2,245.50. Plus you save an additional 15% through the Sun Upgrade Advantage Program, resulting in a total possible savings of over $7,600 [7]!